Delta Air Lines (DL, Atlanta Hartsfield Jackson) says it will order up to sixty additional Embraer (EMB, São José dos Campos Professor Urbano Ernesto Stumpf) and Boeing (BOE, Washington National) jets as soon as its pilot corps has ratified a tentative agreement concerning their compensation.
The US carrier said the agreement, reached following talks between management and union representatives of the Delta chapter of the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) on June 4, provides enhancements to overall pilot compensation — including base pay increases — along with a revision of the airline’s profit sharing formula beginning in 2016.
Should the proposal be ratified, it will have an amendable date of December 31, 2018.
Once the agreement is in place, Delta says it will then proceed with the acquisition of twenty E190s and forty B737-900(ER)s. The Embraers, currently held by Boeing and operated by "another carrier" ch-aviation believes to be Air Canada (AC, Montréal Trudeau), will enter mainline Delta service in the fourth quarter of 2016. They will be deployed on US domestic routes where they will replace smaller 50-seater CRJ200s.
The B737s, on the other hand, will augment an existing order for one-hundred of the type. Delta plans to use these aircraft as replacements for other narrowbody jets scheduled to retire through 2019.
